Nnamdi Kanu's Detention: MASSOB Vows To Continue Protests If…

Tension is building up in the South-East and parts of South-South
geopolitical zones following the continued detention of the leader of
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Director Radio Biafra, Nnamdi
Kanu, who was, last Wednesday, discharged and acquitted by a
Magistrate's Court in Abuja of the treason preferred on him by the
Department of State Security Services, DSS.

The Indigenous People of Biafra on a Peaceful Protest over the Arrest
of the Director of Radio Biafra yesterday along Ikwerre road in Port
Harcourt, Rivers State.


It will be recalled that Justice Ademola Adeniyi of a Federal High
Court, also in Abuja, had, last Thursday, ordered Kanu's immediate
release from DSS detention.
Nnamdi was arrested on October 17, by DSS operatives, shortly after he
arrived Nigeria from his base in the United Kingdom, which prompted
over one month protests after he was arraigned secretly at Wuse 2
Magistrate's Court presided over by Justice Shuiabu, who granted him
bail on October 19.

Meanwhile, the youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo had warned that the
continued detention of the leader Nnamdi Kanu by the DDS, against
court order, could spell doom for Nigeria.

The youth group under the banner of Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC,
expressed shock that four days after the Federal High Court, Abuja
gave ordered Kanu's unconditional release, the DSS had continued to
hold him.

Similarly, reactions have continued to trail last Thursday's shooting
and killing of five members of IPOB by the Joint Task Force,
compromising Army and Navy stationed at the Bridge-head area of the
commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, who were jubilating the
court order for the release of Kanu.

Among those who had so far reacted to the incident include the leader
of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike; the
Ogirishi of Igboland, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, and other human rights
groups.

Nerves frayed as Kanu's not released

The leader of Movement for the Actualization of the State of Biafra,
MASSOB, Uchenna Madu, has accused the DSS of deliberately continuing
to detain Nnamdi Kanu against two court rulings ordering the security
agency to release their leader unconditionally.

"The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu by DSS after both Magistrate,
Federal High courts have discharged and acquitted him of all the
frivolous charges against him shows that Nigerian judiciary is not
independent. The independency of the three arms of government is a
complete sham, which portrays Nigeria as an undemocratic state.

"It is a sign of frustration on Nigeria because of Nnamdi Kanu,
agitators for Biafra represents the very truth Nigeria knows but
always avoids to identify with it. I know Nnamdi Kanu. He is a real
Biafran, who can never succumb to intimidation, deviate or compromise.

"His illegal detention will worsen the already battered image of
Nigeria. MAASOB will never relent in identifying with Nnamdi Kanu. We
shall continue to press for his release with every legitimate action
supported, backed by internationally recongised law, decrees and
charters. MASSOB must maintain our non-violent stance, although we
have found out that the DSS wants to re-arraign him on fresh
trumped-up charges which we will resist," MASSOB leader warned.

Kanu's detention may mar Nigeria —Ohanaeze

The Youth Wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in a statement by its National
President of OYC, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, condemned the attitude of
the DSS over the detained Biafra activist.

"Nigeria is sitting on tenterhook; the looming danger of renewed
protests by Kanu's followers, sympathisers and Biafra agitators is
capable of consuming Nigeria and should be avoided. For us, Ohanaeze
Youth Council, we are pleading with the Federal Government to, as a
matter of sacrifice for the unity of Nigeria, release Nnamdi Kanu.

-Vanguard